CVE-2008-5501 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in the layout engine of Mozilla Firefox 3.x, Thunderbird 2.x, and SeaMonkey 1.x, affecting versions prior to 3.0.5, 2.0.0.19, and 1.1.14 respectively. This flaw allows remote attackers to crash the application by triggering an assertion failure. With a CVSS score of 5.0, it is considered a medium-severity vulnerability, requiring no authentication and having low attack complexity, but only leading to availability impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
>= 2.0, < 2.0.0.19CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 3.0, < 3.0.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:firefox:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
>= 1.0, < 1.1.14CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:a:mozilla:seamonkey:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
8.04CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.04:*:*:*:lts:*:*:* | ||
8.10CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:8.10:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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